Adrian

The Adrian campus is a calm and beautiful place, where everyone is very nice. I just like it here. Rosemary and I met for mass in the morning in their modern chapel. There is a huge tapestry of St. Catherine setting out into the world, made by a couple of nuns, 4500 pieces. I later was able to see a slide show of how it was made, a huge amount of work.

Rosemary and I had lunch, and chatted for a couple of hours. We took a rest break, and then met for dinner, and chatted a couple more hours, on a wide range of topics. She was very upset about the Vatican visitation, which amount to a kind of Papal Investigation of the American nuns. Her order, like most orders, has shrunk dramatically, with the average age in the 70s, and most of the nuns now retired. The Adrian Dominicans are on the liberal end of spectrum, as far as I can tell. Rosemary is not concerned about the number of nuns, thinking that the Holy Spirit is at work, and that organizations have a life cycle.


Rosemary says that she is always glad to see me, that I bring with me a little piece of my father, Eddie, who she was very fond of.